PITTSFIELD — Interstate 95 has reopened following the investigation into a wrong-way vehicle crash that left one person dead Tuesday morning, officials said.
Ivan Cunningham, 82, of Corinna, was operating his 2013 Ford Focus northbound in the southbound lane before his vehicle struck a 2023 Ford F-150 being driven by Nathaniel Blanchard, 27, of Stetson. The vehicles met head on near mile 142 in Burnham, according to Lt. Aaron Turcotte, troop commander for the Maine Department of Public Safety, in a news release.
Turcotte said calls started coming in around 11 a.m. about a vehicle driving on the wrong side of the road.
Cunningham was pronounced dead at the scene, the release said.
Blanchard was transported via LifeFlight of Maine to Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor with non-life-threatening injuries.
The southbound lanes of Interstate 95 were temporarily shut down from 11 a.m.-1 p.m. while the Maine State Police reconstructed the accident.
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